Skeletor
5mo ago
Having said that, I don't think this is true. I propose a much simpler (albeit uncharitable) explanation: jealousy.
Smells like cope. Jews are like 2% of the US population and look white, barely anyone would notice their existence if it weren't for the stuff in your first paragraph and general Israel bullshittery.
Skeletor
5mo ago
generally considered well behaved
There are standards of behavior beyond not shitting in the street or doing drive-by shootings.
Skeletor
5mo ago
So I decided the rhinos needed something to eat besides fish and one another. The problem was, they were so hostile and hungry that they would gobble up every other terrestrial life form on sight. Thus I decided to spawn a race of elves, but adapted to live in the ocean.
I made them aquatic, gave them fins, etc. but to keep them from trying to go on land, build things, and get wiped out, I deleted their frontal lobe and essentially reduced them to animals. I let them keep their emotions and capacity for language though, since those seemed to help them breed, which I had them do at a prodigious rate as egg-laying hermaphrodites.
It worked out pretty well. I made them physically weak but curious and outgoing. They would swim right up to a bunch of rhinos intending to blabber at them nonsensically and get shot immediately. Eventually you'd see rhino ships out there harvesting them in bulk via cannon fire.
Guys they made a Chaos God Simulator, they just gave it cute aesthetics but it's pretty great.
Skeletor
5mo ago
I mean the post I responded to is just a "waaah why do you care" post, not some bold challenge he should feel bad about shirking. It's not even hard to answer. Over-representation in hostile/degenerate institutions and industries, and really outrageously overt meddling in American politics on behalf of their pet ethnostate, boom done. If any other country tried pulling shit like getting BDS laws passed in the US there would be calls to bomb them.
Skeletor
5mo ago
Now mods, I don't know what's going to happen here, but in pre-emptive defense of my boy @SecureSignals here I just really want to stress the fact that this dude asked.
Skeletor
5mo ago
I know someone else here has to play this. If you're not familiar, it's exactly what it sounds like, except that it's not a "god game" in the traditional sense as much as it is a fun toy. There are no win or lose conditions, no mana to squeeze out of your subjects prayers, you're just an omnipotent god. The intended appeal is simply the sheer amount of fuckery you can get up to with its complex set of systems relating to biology, culture, religion, etc.
Like for example, I rolled a big world with a huge mountain in the middle of it. So I hollowed out the inner portion and put down a limited population extremely powerful and ill-tempered angels who can only come and go from their home city via teleportation magic. Then I gave them a xenophobic patriarchal militaristic culture and the ability to remotely influence others toward their ways by invading their dreams.
Then I just filled the rest of the world up with random biomes, let the game populate it with whatever, and gave it a few centuries. All kinds of races emerged, and while some new cultures and religions did take root among them, for the most part the angels just kept making everyone more and more based. Endless fighting ensued. Occasionally I would decide I didn't like someone and sic the angels on them, just because it was more fun than dropping meteors or something.
Eventually the outside world came to be dominated by a race of warlike rhino men, with a disempowered minority of less capable snake men living under them. For shits and giggles I decided to turn the snakes reproductive rate through the roof and see what happens.
When I came back an hour later or whatever I found the snake population smaller than ever. The goddamn rhinos were basically genociding them. Whenever a city would get so many snakes in it that the little icon next to the name turned from a rhino to a snake, the rest of the rhino cities would go "hey we have the xenophobic trait, fuck that snake city" and gang up on it.
I was so amused by this that I finished the snakes off myself and rewarded the rhinos by making them a bloated race of purple and green cannibals with an astronomical breeding rate, designed to do nothing but fight and eat one another for the rest of eternity while serving as feeder mice for my race of evil angels.
And you thought you were "a bad guy in video games" because you did the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Skyrim.
Skeletor
5mo ago
Listen, you claim not to be an HBD coper and I guess I believe you, but that just leaves me wondering exactly what you're coping so hard for. There's no amount of re-litigating the military historical record that's going to turn Sub-Saharan Africa into anything but a collection of primitive tribal civilizations that mostly get stepped on by everyone who comes along.
Like deadass, how much am I supposed to believe better geography or something would really do for a population missing two SD worth of average IQ?
I will always remember this comment on /r/WarCollege that argues Paul Kagame is one of the most notable military leader alive and I always wonder how a person of that skill and intellect would have fared in a non-African conflict.
You mean you wonder what this one outlier smart guy might have done if he had existed among a population capable of maintaining an advanced civilization. Yeah that's kind of the whole point.
Skeletor
5mo ago
So yeah, maybe we should wait for some black-dominant polities doing some world conquering in the next few centuries or even a millennium before making a statement.
I consider it extremely unlikely that all prior history will turn out to be a fluke, and a continent with an average IQ of like 70 will suddenly get really good at warfare now that it's more complicated than ever. Pointing out the handful of times in the last ten-thousand years that anyone from there defeated an army that wasn't barefoot doesn't really change the equation. Africa sucks at everything and the reasons aren't actually mysterious.
Skeletor
5mo ago
They jerked the corpse around for as long as they could and made some Baby Yoda money along the way, but I knew the deathblow had truly been struck when even a reputedly-good project like Andor got shit for views.
I think bringing Baby Yoda back in 2026 is going to feel like someone trying to bring back fidget spinners. I think their goose is just cooked and this is going to be the part where they really have to face that fact.
Skeletor
5mo ago
I'm far from convinced that TLJ was what actually killed Star Wars.
Leading up to TFA all the nerds at my job sat around and speculated about every little detail for weeks beforehand.
In between movies we all sat around and speculated about what would happen next.
Then TLJ came out and everyone shrugged and we never talked about Star Wars ever again. The third movie came and went without comment since most of us didn't even bother to see it.
TLJ killed Star Wars. It just objectively did. It took a revered pop cultural touchstone and obliterated it overnight. It should be studied as a scientific curiosity, because I wouldn't have believed it possible.
Skeletor
5mo ago
I think that was the point. This is not a story that should be turned into an endless series of blockbuster movies.
If this kind of shit is what the director was actually thinking (and I don't believe that, this all just sounds like cope) then he's worse than a bad director, he's a vandal and a prick. Disney didn't hand him millions of dollars to be a clever little boy and teach fans that Star Wars is stupid or whatever, fans didn't show up and buy movie tickets to see that. If this were intentional, Disney would be morally justified in sending someone to break his legs.
Skeletor
5mo ago
Get over yourself dude. Necessity is the mother of invention, and if the Ukrainians had decided to keep them, and the Russians/Americans invaded, they could have had two dozen hacked up nuclear ICBMs launched in days.
They get wiped from the face of the planet the moment anyone anywhere believes they're even vaguely contemplating such a thing. Fuck off with this stupid fanfic, dog.
Skeletor
5mo ago
So about eleven months longer than it takes American and Russian forces to meet up and shake hands in the ruins of Kiev after they're branded a rogue state, you mean. Get out of here dude, nobody wanted them to keep those weapons.
Skeletor
5mo ago
So the Budapest Memorandum said, in brief, that Ukraine would give up the Soviet nuclear weapons stationed within its borders, and in return the other signatories would agree not to attack them. Also, they would agree to go before the UN and raise a formal stink on Ukraine's behalf in the event that someone else attacked them. It wasn't an especially great deal, but Ukraine didn't have the ability to launch the weapons so their leverage was not that of a proper nuclear power.
However, Ukraine-aligned propagandists shitting up places like /r/worldnews love to refer to it as a "security guarantee" and behave as if it's outrageous that everyone hasn't declared war on Russia already. That and the aforementioned linear model of war where Ukraine loses its last mile of territory in 2060 are the two big tells that you're looking at pro-Ukraine, well, drivel.
In 2025, Russian forces have made significant territorial gains in Ukraine, capturing approximately 165 square miles in the four weeks leading up to November 11, 2025. At these rates, Russia should be able to take all of Ukraine in a few decades.
If it worked like this WW1 would have ended in the 1960s or something. Just stop with this, it's stupid and makes me assume I'm reading assbrained worthless propaganda. The only worse thing you could do is start blurfing about the Budapest Memorandum.
Edit: Whoops I meant to reply to @theSinisterMushroom with this.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Yeah for Monty Hall I had to kind of chew on it until I had a mental model that made sense to me. With Sleeping Beauty I feel like I'm just being asked hey what are the odds of something with 1/3 odds?
I'm reading the Wikipedia article on it linked in the OP, and I like to think I'm a passably intelligent person, but most of the "Solutions" section just reads as complete nonsense to me.
The Monty Hall one clicked pretty easy for me once I realized something like:
There's a 1/3 chance the prize is behind my door, and a 2/3 chance the prize is behind "Not My Door." That knowledge doesn't normally help for obvious reasons, but when Monty comes along and eliminates one of the remaining doors and asks me to reconsider, I'm functionally being given "Not My Door" as a valid choice.
But there was that initial period of assuming that it must be 50/50 and reading an explanation and having it click. By comparison I don't get the point of this one. It's a lot more convoluted yet also more obvious.
Like if every box of Froot Loops contains a free Blue Foozle, and 50% of Froot Loops boxes also contain an additional Red Foozle, then the chance of any given Foozle being blue is two-thirds. Okay done, what's the big deal? It's not even counterintuitive. The guy at the Froot Loops factory probably realized that he needed to order twice as many blues as reds without even thinking about it.
All the shit about drugs and memory erasure is just obfuscation. Why is this problem even a thing?
Skeletor
6mo ago
In what world does what I'm suggesting inconvenience non-trans people in any way? It's literally free money, distributed indiscriminately to all citizens.
How will the market for cosmetic surgery be affected by subsidizing it for literally everyone? How will society and culture be affected by subsidizing cosmetic surgery for literally everyone? You don't know, you haven't given it a second thought. You're a progressive pulling brand new "freedoms" out of your ass that coincidentally boil down to giving other people's money to one of your pet identity groups. Bringing women who want tit jobs or whatever along for the ride is just a sop you're willing to throw in.
After all, it's free money once you take it from other people. What about the overhead, inevitable creep, and probable activist reactions, someone downthread asks? Well golly those would form a fully generalized argument against massive government spending on non-critical issues, and since those can't possibly exist I guess you don't have to answer any of the questions.
Utterly parodical.
I absolutely do not give a single shit about transgender people. I think they should all get psychiatric treatment to stop thinking they're things they're not and get the fuck out of the public sphere. I resent every political force that has behaved as if this bizarre niche sexual practice is entitled to anything but my scorn, and I think the progressive civil rights mantle has been nothing but degraded by trying to extend it to obvious mentally ill fetish bullshit.
In short, I think we're just enemies.
Skeletor
6mo ago
My pitch regarding subsidies for transition is that every citizen should be entitled from birth to a finite "morphological freedom budget", calculated to cover gender reassignment plus detransition. A trans person can cash it in to transition (with just enough left over to detransition if they change their mind); an ordinary person can use the money on whatever other elective plastic surgery they want. But once you're out you're out, and further expenses are on you.
Jesus Christ man, how about these people just go to a goddamn psychiatrist and leave the rest of us the hell alone for once?
Skeletor
6mo ago
Yeah it's all in good fun, half of all fandom consists of making up rationalizations for stuff like this.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Or to be more succinct, their definition of discrimination is just plain invalid because it includes any instance of anyone anywhere admitting to not sharing their beliefs/delusions/whatever.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Acquiring the rights to potentially popular music and gambling on it in the form of promotional dollars will remain a viable business model, but that's really all we're talking about here. The "record company" of X years from now may well be one guy with a squad of AI agents trying to get his hookiest AI songs into the right TikTok cat videos.
If Jews don't count as an identity bloc operating in their own interest then literally no one does. Like yes we know that every random Jewish podiatrist or whatever doesn't work for AIPAC or something, people can quit telling us like we're supposed to suddenly turn around in wonder and say "gee whiz I guess it really isn't literally every Jew, I love Israel now!"
It's a trifling observation that's only significant by way of how little you see it made in reference to any other groups. We can speak collectively of whites, blacks, whatever all day and no one ever feels the need to do this particular dance.
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